{"id":3393,"date":"2012-04-04T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/04\/04\/oh-those-evil-gun-companies-and-evi\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:08","slug":"oh-those-evil-gun-companies-and-evi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3393","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Those Evil Gun Companies And The Evil NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15985,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.vpc.org\\\/press\\\/1204ccwstudy.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140328223315\\\/http:\\\/\\\/vpc.org\\\/press\\\/1204ccwstudy.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:39:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:39:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15986,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ruger.com\\\/news\\\/2012-01-12.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260120184145\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ruger.com\\\/news\\\/2012-01-12.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:39:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:39:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15987,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/story\\\/257306&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240422004825\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.shootingwire.com\\\/story\\\/257306&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:40:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 17:40:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Violence Policy Center has their panties in a wad over a donation that Glock, Inc. is making to organizations within the National Rifle Association. Frankly, I think they are jealous that the Joyce Foundation doesn&#8217;t give them this much money with which to put out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/press\/1204ccwstudy.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more spurious reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vpc-Glock-Donation.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/vpc-Glock-Donation.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I agree with Miguel that the VPC will have even more PsH&#8217;s when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/news\/2012-01-12.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruger presents the final installment<\/a> of their <strike>$1 million<\/strike>&nbsp; $1.2 million dollar challenge check to Wayne LaPierre at the NRA Annual Meeting. <\/p>\n<p>From Glock&#8217;s press release in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Smyrna, GA &#8211; GLOCK, Inc. will donate a total of $115,000 to four separate organizations within the National Rifle Association (NRA) during the 2012 NRA Annual Meeting &amp; Exhibits held in St. Louis, MO, Apr. 12 &#8211; 15. GLOCK, Inc. Vice Presidents Gary Fletcher, Chad Mathis and Josh Dorsey, alongside spokesman R. Lee Ermey, will make presentations to each group inside the GLOCK, Inc. exhibition booth (#2031) on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 10:00AM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are millions of NRA members and thousands of certified NRA firearms instructors who continue to protect our Second Amendment rights and help to promote firearms safety,&#8221; said GLOCK Vice President, Gary Fletcher. &#8220;It&#8217;s important for us at GLOCK, Inc. to recognize that commitment by supporting the NRA and its affiliate organizations.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootingwire.com\/story\/257306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The full release can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Violence Policy Center has their panties in a wad over a donation that Glock, Inc. is making to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1999,680,304],"class_list":["post-3393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glock","tag-ruger","tag-violence-policy-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3393\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}